Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preparing for the Nov. 28 annual pro draft, the scouts opened their books on the men who will be getting the big money-and big it will be. With the upstart American Football League challenging the staid old N.F.L. for talent, a promising young man can write his own ticket-bonus of $25,000 and up, free car, free house, $15,000-a-season salary, twice what rookies earned a few years ago. TIME'S pro-picked All-America...
...Republican nominee for secretary of state of West Virginia in Tuesday's election. As such, I polled 60,000 more votes than Goldwater and Miller. While I attribute my defeat to the head of the ticket, I still think Goldwater is right. What you have just witnessed is not the end of an era-it is the beginning of a revolution...
...Senator Stennis of Mississippi did not support L.B.J., do not support the Kennedy-Johnson program, do not support the Democratic platform, do not support the right of all Americans to vote. No committee assignments should be given to those who opposed the Democratic platform and opposed the national ticket. Let the racists follow Strom Thurmond into Goldwater country...
This was going to be the season of the big thaw-the melting of the $10 million glacier of box-office ice, which is Broadway's term for ticket scalpers' profits. But last week Manhattan's District Attorney arrested nine ticket salesmen on charges of scalping. Tickets to How to Succeed were selling for $20 apiece, and " the scalpers were even dealing in ducats for the lowly New York Mets...
Williams's and Watson's dilemma faces many ultra-conservative Democrats holding once secure seats in the deep south. They, and most of the voters who elect them are followers of Republicans like Barry Goldwater, John Tower, and Storm Thurmond. If they continue to run on the Democratic ticket for reasons of tradition and seniority, they risk losing the election (as Williams and Watson certainly would have if they had had Republican opponents) or their seniority. If they run on the Republican ticket, they lose their chance to obtain power through committees and they still risk defeat. Whatever happens...